Minorities have had many contributions to science and chemistry. A few of these minorities are George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Lloyd Hall, James Harris, Mario Molina, Baruj Benacerraf , Luis Federico Leloir, and César Milstein. An African-American born to slave parents, George Washin...

Linus Pauling Linus Carl Pauling was an American physical chemist who was a firm believer in high doses of Vitamin C. He introduced the concept of electro negativity in 1932, and he also formulated a model for the structure of hemoglobin. Pauling retired in 1974. Pauling was born in Portland, ...

Famous Women in Science Born on July 19, 1921 in New York City was one of the most important American research scientists of the 20th century. Rosalyn Yalow is an inspiration to many men and women for her commitment to the education of science. Despite many challenged she never gave up and exce...

Rosalind Franklin was born in London, England on July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty. She was raised in a well-to-do Jewish family and that provided her with an exceptional educational back round in Physics and Chemistry at St. Paul's Girls' School and Cambridge University. Franklin pro...

On the 7th November 1867 a teacher in physics and maths became the father of a little girl called Marya Sklodowska and nobody could know. That this girl would have been one of the most famous female scientists in the 90's and 20's century. At the age of 16 she finished her exam in a lycee...

Time is passing by us and new scientists are developing new theories and ideas. New discoveries are being made on the atom that show it is more complex than anyone expected. One of the well known Polish-born French scientists is Marie Curie. She is presently experimenting with radioactivity and h...

Alfred Nobel: the Man Behind the Prize The great Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on the 21st day of October,1833. His family was one of engineers who had descended from one of the 17th century's greatest technical geniuses who goes by the name of Olof Rudbeck. At the young age...

The report by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) on the three-kilometre brown cloud hanging over Asia zeroes in on this kind of fuel burning as the source of the cloud that is disrupting monsoons, lowering agricultural output and creating air pollution leading to respiratory diseases....

The story starting with Nash at a young age attending Princeton in search for his true original idea which in his mind was the only thing that could make him matter. Crowe fits the role, the environment, and even his appearance seems correct to the true life John Nash at this time period. Nash an an...

MARIE CURIEMarie Curie was born youngest of five children in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. She was well-taught by both her mother, Bronsilawa, a teacher, and her father, Wladyslaw, a professor of mathematics and physics. Marie continued her study of mathematical sciences at the University of...

In a male dominated society, women have previously taken a back seat to men. But in the 20th century women have shown what they are capable of accomplishing. I have created a list of the top five most influential women of the 20th century whose accolades put them in a league of their own. ...